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The New Yorker: Essential Reads of 2024

Each week, The New Yorker's editors and critics recommend the most captivating, notable, brilliant, thought-provoking, and talked-about books. Now, as 2024 comes to an end, they’ve chosen a dozen essential reads in nonfiction and a dozen, too, in fiction and poetry.

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  • The Achilles Trap

    Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

    Coll, Steve
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2024. — DS79.76 .C654 2024
  • BookNew York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2024] — GF13 .A475 2024
  • Challenger

    a True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

    Higginbotham, Adam
    BookNew York : Avid Reader Press, 2024. — TL867 .H54 2024
  • The Empusium

    a Health Resort Horror Story

    Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-
    BookNew York : Riverhead Books, 2024. — F
  • Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

    the United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

    Blitzer, Jonathan
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2024. — JV6483 .B58 2024
  • BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. — PR9570.P343 A275 2024
  • The Freaks Came Out to Write

    the Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture

    Romano, Tricia,
    BookNew York : PublicAffairs, 2024. — PN4899.N42 V535 2024
  • BookNew York : Pantheon Books, [2024] — HQ801 .W773 2024
  • BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. — F
  • BookNew York : Doubleday, [2024] — F
  • Knife

    Meditations After An Attempted Murder

    Rushdie, Salman
    BookNew York : Random House, [2024] — PR6068.U757 Z46 2024
  • Latinoland

    a Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority

    Arana, Marie (Writer)
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2024. — E184.S75 A783 2024
  • The Light Eaters

    How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

    Schlanger, Zoë,
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — QK711.2 .S34 2024
  • BookNew York : William Morrow & Co., [2024] — F
  • Reagan

    His Life and Legend

    Boot, Max, 1968-
    BookNew York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company, [2024] — E877 .B668 2024
  • BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. — DK510.766.N383 A3 2024
  • BookMinneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2024] — PS3619.E94 M63 2024